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2010
 Crying Cat (Crocodile Tears) photo credit: Elizabeth Underhill
Hello Schrödinger?
An exhibition of works by Laura Paolini
January 8 - February 26, 2010
Opening: Friday, January 8th 7 - 11 pm
The artist will be in attendance
[Essay]
Laura Paolini’s work is primarily conceptual and is expressed through media-based installations. An emerging artist and a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Paolini’s work has been described as quirky, refreshing and seductive as well as subversively political.
As one of the first works the viewer encounters in the exhibition "Hello, Schrödinger?" at Hamilton Artists Inc., audio embedded in a blowing, inverted hand dryer invites a kind of intimate participation which belies how physical presence (or non presence) is implicated in communication. Animals are used as symbols of desired human qualities and reflect a somewhat unnerving and slightly sinister quality embodied by surrogate, media-activated toy counterparts. In the central work Crocodile Tears: (Crying Cat) the viewer encounters a domestic tableau, within which a mechanical cat cries as he gazes upon the image of his real life, video doppleganger on a nearby television. Captured within this Kantian moment of prolonged and sublime longing, perhaps the cat is aware that it will never be a real cat, and is deeply saddened.
Laura Paolini is also an active writer. Her columns and reviews have appeared in FUSE magazine and other publications nationally and internationally. Her upcoming article about artist Charles Stankivech will be featured in the next issue of musicworks (February 2010). In 2008, Paolini was a resident in the Telus InterActive Art and Entertainment Programme at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab.
2009
Hamilton Artists Inc. and the Red Tree Collective present
ReMix Institute - Phase II of The Cuban Exchange
ADRIAN RUMBAUT ANNE MILNE PETER KARUNA
POPEYE’S GOLDEN THEORY SADKO HADZIHASANOVIC
BRYCE KANBARA YANET RAMÍREZ MOLINA
September 11 - October 30, 2009
Curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer
Installation shots of one of Massimo Grimaldi's text pieces
at Hamilton Artists Inc., (on James St N near Cannon St)
presented in collaboration with The Art Gallery of Hamilton.
About the Artist:
Massimo Grimaldi was born in 1974 in Taranto, Italy. He lives and
works in Milan.
“My works are not roaring tigers, but rather the quicksand that
swallowed them down. They examine the functioning of art and the way
in which it is perceived, valued, and understood. My research ranges
from a continual interrogation of the role of the artist in society,
to the power and the limits of aesthetic speculation, to the standards
of the production and circulation of images.” Massimo Grimaldi
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About the Exhibition:
This installation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition TURN
ON: Contemporary Italian Art, part of Vista Italia, the AGH’s
celebration of Italian art and culture. TURN ON is curated by Sara
Knelman, and on view from June 4 – September 13, 2009.
TURN ON invites three of Italy’s most dynamic contemporary artists to
engage viewers in Hamilton. Adrian Paci’s films, Massimo Grimaldi’s
texts and Patrick Tuttofuoco’s sculptures are connected by a desire to
activate — and be activated by — the world around them. Informed by a
consciously global outlook, their works intrude upon and illuminate
the possibilities of urban environments.
The text on the hoarding read:
Watery and incapable of wishing to be something. As if joy might never be belonging to us but only escaping from us. Loving each other only because we should have loved before loving. Moving clumsily because clumsiness is our only beauty. Feeling special as though we were living in a song by The Style Council. Withering miserably. Failing feebly. We are not emotional. We are conventional. We don't need a good reason, we only need to have need of one. But we will begin again, pretending to be changed. But knowing that we are still the same. That we are still telling lies the same way. And we will be really cool, true artists, and we will not think of ourselves as being useless. And we will seek to produce so many marvels for those wanting ever so much to be marveled. We will say we are happy, and we will say so finally crying. Finally collapsing.
For more information, please visit: http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.on.ca/ex_current.php#4
suckerpunch
Niki Boghossian, Matthew Dayler, and Andrew McPhail
Using unpredictable materials, the artists drag out both the unusual and the sublime from their sources by bravely taking on the heavyweights of Christianity, male sporting goods and winter apparel, domestic items and thrift store toys in a humourous exploration of constructs of gender and sexuality.
Niki Boghossian graduated from Concordia University in 2007, and has shown her work throughout Montreal and the GTA. She now lives and works in Toronto.
"My work is concerned with the process of understanding issues of gender, power, violence and the body. It is an investigation of energy and the idea that a thing can never be what it claims. The thing is instead in a constant state of flux and when the struggle to become what it is has been won and it reaches the limits of itself it must become its opposite."
- Niki Boghossian
Niki Boghossian - Defeated Heavybag, cotton wool, cotton batting, chain, 2007
Matthew Dayler was born and raised in Hamilton. He creates self-portraits in drawings, prints, photography and videos, which are inspired by popular culture and issues of identity. Dayler’s work centers on a wide variety of contemporary imagery relating to the self in juxtaposition with music, graffiti, and gay culture. Matthew Dayler’s work has been exhibited at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, The Brooks Museum in Memphis Tennessee, and Galerie Edition Schedler in Zurich, Switzerland, among others. Dayler lives in Covington, Kentucky and currently teaches/lectures at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
"My work promotes individualism, through embracing elements of music specifically dj culture, graffiti, popular news media, and fashion. These days the very things we hold as being sacred are being taken from us and exploited by popular cultures increasing need for the fresh, and new - diluting our sense of what is real and true. My attempt is to question this trust. " - Matthew Dayler
Matthew Dayler Untitled Red Silk-Screen, Acrylic on board, "20 by"20, 2009
Born in 1961, Andrew McPhail hails from Calgary, Alberta and is a graduate of York University with a Masters degree in visual arts. He has exhibited in galleries across Canada and abroad. He currently lives in Hamilton.
"I bought all these socks at the dollar store- about 80 pairs and the cashier at the checkout didn't even ask me what they were for. AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE WHITE SOCKS!" - Andrew McPhail
Andrew McPhail 'not my fault!' mixed media with socks, 2008
The suckerpunch exhibition is an official venue of the Hamilton Pride Festival
Opening:
Friday June 12 2009 during the James St North Art Crawl 7-10 pm Exhibition runs until July 31, 2009
gallery hours: Tues - Fri 12-5 Sat 12-4
[suckerpunch]
Hamilton Artists Inc.
161 James St. North Hamilton, ON (corner of James St N and Cannon) 905 529 3355
inc@hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca
Carbon Interiorities
Friday, May 8th, 7-10 pm (during the James St. North Art Crawl)
An evolving installation using the materials of performance and drawing by Vida Simon begins.
May 12-16, 12-5 pm
The public is invited to drop by the gallery as this performance/installation further unfolds.
(the gallery is closed May 9th-11th)
Wednesday May 13th, 7-8:30 pm
An artist talk by Rachel Echenberg
Friday, May 15th, 4-7 pm
A performance underlining erasure and the invisible by Rachel Echenberg
and Thursday, May 14th A performance at several locations (TBA) in Hamilton
Saturday, May 16th, 7-8:30 pm
An artist talk marking the closure of the residency by Vida Simon discussing the performance/
installation at HAI, and past works
May 16 – May 30th, Tues-Fri 12-5, Sat 12-4 pm
An installation of the results of the artists’ work is on view at the gallery
Montreal-based artist Rachel Echenberg works in performance, video and sculpture. Since 1992 her work has
been exhibited, performed and screened throughout Canada, Europe, and the US as well as in Chile, Lebanon,
Morocco and Japan. At Hamilton Artists Inc., over the course of several hours Rachel Echenberg attempts to slowly
erase herself from view. This action aims to put a visual aspect to public invisibility and anonymity. Echenberg
investigates live and mediated presence through a body of work that explores vulnerable, intimate and uncontrollable
relationships. She has always been drawn to actions that point towards slow physical and conceptual transformation.
She is interested in how proximity and dislocation affect the possibilities for active empathy and productive exchange
from the viewer’s distanced perspective.
Vida Simon’s installation/performance work has been presented in a wide range of contexts – galleries,
performance festivals, residencies, and site-responsive projects in public and private spaces. Her work has been shown
internationally, most recently in Lithuania and Chile. While her work is visually-based, she tries to create situations
that undo representation, revealing processes that are normally kept “behind the scenes.” Drawing live often plays
a central role in her performances. Vida Simon lives and works in Montreal. For the work in Hamilton, she explores
the intersections of drawing, improvisation, and personal archaeology. This slowly—unfolding—space will center on
drawing, yet also incorporate other actions performed at different “stations” in the gallery, forming a cycle of gestures.
Hamilton Artists Inc.
155–161 James Street North, Hamilton, ON L8R 3P1
905 529 3355
inc@hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca
www.hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca
Public Hours Tuesday–Friday 12–5, Saturday 12–4
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 In the MAIN SPACE:
March 2nd at 7 pm
Carl Brown: Film Screening & Artist Talk
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Screening two films:
Two Pictures and Blue Monet
Christ’s Church Cathedral, 252 James Street North, Hamilton
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2008
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In the MAIN SPACE:
A MEMBER'S EXHIBITION
Susan Davis SAJD
a body of work
Running: September 12th - October 4th, 2008
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Opening on September 12th, at 7 p.m. (James St. North Art Crawl Night)
Hamilton Artists Inc.
161 James St. North,
Hamilton, Ontario
Tel. 905-529-3355
Email: inc@hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca
Gallery Hours: Tues. to Fri. 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. and Sat. 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. |
 June 21 - September 9, 2008
The installation has been extended and can be viewed at Cootes Paradise until September 9, 2008.
The Urban Moorings Project
Tor Lukasik-Foss, Steve Mazza, Susan Detwiler, Noel Harding, David Acheson
Curated by Nora Hutchinson
Opening: June 21, 1 pm at Princess Point, Cootes Paradise
Artists Panel Discussion: June 26, 6-8 pm at McMaster Museum of Art
[press release] [directions to Cootes Paradise]
[pictures]
More Info: The Urban Moorings Project brings together five artists to create floating sculptures and gardens on the wetlands of Cootes Parapdise. The project relfects on past communities that lived on and around Cootes Paradise. These include Shacktown, the houseboat community that was displaced before the 1950's. The sculptures are the artists' response to this history.
As the sculptures interpret our past, the gardens consider our future and reflect on current restoration projects involving native plants and wildlife.
Moorings contain hidden anchors and weathered chains. Likewise, our past and public memories are historically concealed, yet live on as vessels decreeing either emptiness or event.
The Urban Moorings Project is a co-presentation by Hamilton Artists Inc., the City of Hamilton and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
 May 2 - June 7, 2008
"Entre Quatre Murs" Berlin
"Between Four Walls" Berlin
Nathalie Daoust
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Opening Friday, May 9th during the James St. North Art Crawl, from 7 to 10 pm.
More Info: The series of three-dimensional portraits, “Entre Quatre Murs”, opens thirty windows onto various imaginary universes, revealing the existential elements of everyday life. Daoust photographed each person in their home, in their everyday surroundings, capturing moments of intimacy. The contrast between Berlin’s pre-World War II interiors and the contemporary images of the women create an odd time-shift, providing a melancholic feeling of a lost world. Daoust has created a technique of printing various elements of an image on several separate layers of orthochromatic film. By superimposing and reassembling pieces of the image, as well as leaving an ethereal space between each layer, the image eventually becomes three-dimensional and complete again. This re-compositing of the image in space acts as a transparent puzzle, revealing the unknown, and leading to an imaginary visioning of the individual.
The exhibition "Entre Quatre Murs" Berlin by Nathalie Daoust is a participating venue in the CONTACT photography festival.
CONTACT 2008 examines how photography shapes our understanding of the world around us and the enduring role it plays in the preservation of individual and collective memories. A wide range of images – from the epic to the everyday – look beyond the headlines to explore private and social histories.
Daoust Festival Listing
More information about the CONTACT photo festival
Women photographers of the CONTACT festival, featuring Nathalie Daoust
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 March 7 - April 19, 2008
Histoires
Paintings by Mario Doucette
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Please note date of artist talk has been changed due to the recent snow
storm
Artist Talk: Friday, March 14, 2008 6 - 7 PM
Reception with the Artist: Friday, March 14, 2008 7 -10 PM
during the James St. North Artcrawl
Paintings may be viewed at the gallery from March 7 to April 19, 2008.
Gallery Hours: Tues-Fri 12 – 5, Sat 12-4
More Info: Visiting artist Mario Doucette from Moncton, New Brunswick, evokes the
imaginary world of childhood and inserts the contemporary influences of
video games and cable TV within his paintings. The works are influenced by
childhood memories of drawing sketches, while transfixed by television
images portraying epic struggles between two armies. The artist states,
“Men and machinery brought extreme violence upon each other, while we as
children would ignore any reason or cause. We could distinguish each army,
not by their nationality, but by the colour of their uniforms. We admired
the weaponry that allowed for the destruction of the other “team”. I had
perceived war as a game and not as the abominable crime of our society.
Later I would learn about the destructive nature of war and the great loss
of life. This discovery has transposed itself onto paper into adulthood, as
the elements of combat and struggle between nations have become an ever
present concern to me.”
Doucette’s primary concern has been to communicate the history of the
Acadian Deportation of 1755. He began to create this body of work during a
residency in France in 2004. The purpose of the residency was to create
works that would deal with the impact of colonization. Doucette was moved
to express “the great need to understand the incredible complexities of the
human condition.” Doucette’s work combines both aspects of Acadian history
popular culture in order to provide interesting juxtapositions of
historical events, representations of violence, super heroes, folkloric
culture and contemporary imagery.
Biography: Acadian artist Mario Doucette has shown professionally since
1998. He has shown in different mediums - drawings, paintings, performances,
videos and super8 films - within the confines of exhibits and events in
Canada and beyond (France, Haiti, Dominican Republic). Active in his
artistic community, Mario is a member of Collectif Taupe. In 2004, a
residency in Brouage, France, resulted in Histoires, a series of works
half-drawing and half-painting that continues to inspire thoughts and
reflections on the effects of colonization.
Bibliographie: Artiste acadien, Mario Doucette expose dans des contextes professionnels
depuis 1998. Il a présenté plusieurs œuvres – dessins, peintures,
performances ou films Super8 – dans le cadre d’expositions ou de
présentations, tant collectives qu’individuelles, au Canada comme ailleurs
dans le monde (en France, en République Dominicaine, en Haïti, etc.). Actif
dans la communauté artistique de l’Acadie, Mario Doucette est membre de
Taupe et de « La Factrie », un studio qu’il partage avec le même collectif
d’artistes. En 2004, une résidence d’artiste à Brouage en France, donnera
lieu à Histoires, une série de tableaux mi-dessins mi-peintures, qui elle,
engendre cette réflexion.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 February 16, 2008
Groteskes
Performance Art Collective
[brochure][performance photos]
Curated by Irene Loughlin
Produced by Hamilton Artists Inc.
at James Buttrum and Son
146 James St. North
Hamilton, ON
Cheto Castellano (Santiago, Chile) 8 pm
Naufus Figueroa (Chicago, IL) 8 pm
Coco Rico (NY, NY) 9 pm
Nao Bustamante (SanFrancisco, CA) 10 pm
Nako Tako (Santiago, Chile) 11 pm
DJ Zeno 11 - 1 pm
More Info:
Visiting artists Coco Rico (NY), Cheto Castellano (Santiago, Chile), Nao
Bustamante (San Francisco, CA) and Naufus Figueroa (Chicago, IL) are the
first group of visiting artists to be hosted in the new artist residency
space at Hamilton Artists Inc.
The works are alternately bold, hilarious, deeply meditative, and
transgressive. Cheto Castellano presents a tattoo/performance art work. In
the past has involved working with political exiles, tattooing them with
portraits of persons who have been disappeared by state terrorism. In
Canada, his intent is to tattoo the name or portrait of someone that is not
necessarily disappeared to that person, but that is distant. The artist is
interested in immigrants who have left behind members of their family or
friends in their home countries in order to work and economically
subsist in
first world nations. Casetellano and the person being tattooed will wear
masks are of Mexican Lucha Libre fighters, which are used to make anonymous
the identities of the participant and the artist. At 11 pm, the
artist will
also present a separate performance under the pseudonym Nako Tako.
In a commentary about consumption, the infamous Coco Rico will lie in a bed
of salmon roe and invite visitors to eat from her body. Her aim as an
artist
is to expose systemic injustices and to break the constricting rules of
propriety through a summoning of the carnivalesque within public spaces.
Coco Rico’s arte/acción and intervention performances have taken place in
various settings including: Christie’s Auction House, Galería Animal de
Chile, and Beijing University. Currently Coco Rico is preparing for her
upcoming presidential platform in the US’s 2008 elections.
Nao Bustamante’s work often develops in relationship to a site in bizarre
and humourous ways. Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance
and video artist originating from California. Her work encompasses
performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante's work has
been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki.
Guatemalan and Canadian artist Naufus Figueroa performs intimate and
incidental performances, offering one on one sessions involving cigar
divinations, where the artist smokes and interprets the person’s future
through the abstract patterns and colour of a half-smoked cigar. Naufus’
work is influenced by his Mayan heritage, and he explores various issues
relating to war and diaspora. Naufus’ work is currently featured in the
exhibition “School for Young Shamans”, curated by AA Bronson at John
Connelly Presents in Chelsea, New York.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 January 11, 2008 - February 23, 2008
Stories to Myself
Corinne Duchesne
Opening reception on Jan. 11th at 7p.m.
More Info: Burlington based artist Corinne Duschene relates the female experience of grief as a socially inscribed relation. The artist has undertaken research into death and dying informed by objects of antiquity, culturally specific ritual, reliquary and
iconography. Her imagery centres on symbols of landscape and biomorphous
organism, human and animal, and conveys aspects of suffering through
physical references and recollections of childhood memories. The passing of
time is conveyed through layered materials such as transparent Mylar.
This work furthers dialogue around the social conditions surrounding death and
dying, often a suppressed dialogue in western cultures, and brings a specific
female voice and aesthetic to the issue. The artist questions socially determined
constraints upon women which prescribe grieving as a silent and private
experience and brings them into the public realm through this exhibition.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
November 9, 2007
DIGITAL DUBSCAPES: Multi-Arts Installation/Event
part of DubFest007
Time: 8:30 pm - 12:00 midnight
More Info: Gary Barwin, Slim Volumes, Jack Street, Ritallin, Clayton Lynch, Klyde Broox, Peculiar I, Ras Mo, Nabbi Natural, D-Lishus, Hayche with Kwanza and Beny on drums. Special Guest: Alexis O'Hara and Multimedia Artists. Narrator: Klyde Broox; Producer: Morpheal; Music: Gauks and Gauks
Co-produced by Dub Poets Collective, Hamilton Artist Inc., Morpheal Productions and McMaster Multimedia Department
In the 3RD SPACE:
 November 9, 2007
YAWN
Pavel Acosta (Cuba)
Two-channel video projection, DVD, 8:26 min looped
More Info: In the piece, a man and a woman, (maybe a couple, neighbours, strangers in the street) look at each other and yawn. Their faces jump out of the facades of buildings on opposite sides of a street. The narrative is intended to be contagious. Like a virus, it contaminates passers-by. Later, they will pass on the action to others. The installation explores the boundaries between conscious acts, and one of the most irrational physiological responses. It reproduces a general public mood - the scepticism that is typical of the artist's generation. It appears simultaneously as a mirror image of daily life, and as a mirage of a likely future. Yawning, as a response to the latest terrible events in the world, could be interpreted as a sign of scepticism or equally as a form of paralysis. YAWN is intended for exposure to people in as many cities around the world as possible.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 September 14, 2007 - November 3, 2007
Considerations: Art from Wesley Urban Ministries
Wesley Urban Ministries (Hamilton, ON)
Opening reception: September 22nd at 2-4pm.
Curated by Philip Grant
Essay by David Buckle
More Info: The Wesley Centre is a facility the helps the impoverished by providing food, shelter, counseling, health, and outreach programming, and art classes are included in this outreach. CONSIDERATIONS is an exhibition of artwork from Wesley Centre clients and the Transitional Youth programme. The exhibition is a sampling of six years of art classes, taught by local artist Philip Grant. The art program at Wesley began in January of 2001, and since then over a 1000 individual artworks have been produced. The Hamilton Artists Inc is proud to present 26 two-dimensional works of various subject matter, including dreams, nightmares, beliefs, personal experiences, self portraits, and fantasies. The art workshops are held Saturday afternoons between 1-4 pm at their downtown Hamilton facility. This art programme has successfully proven to build self esteem and confidence for clients from the community.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 September 14, 2007 - November 3, 2007
ISPIRALL
Fleur-Ange Lamothe
Opening reception: September 14th at 7pm.
More Info: Fleur-Ange Lamothe's life has taken a new turn. After leaving behind a 30-year career in education and her role as principal, she is developing her 40-year-old photographic passion. This recent artist now works with performance, photo documentation, photography, painting and installation. Fleur-Ange's interests lie in the realm of personal history, cultural history and mythology as they create a context for women and especially for herself as a woman artist. Her 2006 artist's inquiry on the island of Malta led to a refocusing on the Spiral as a design. The "Ispirall" project (ispirall is Maltese for spiral) resulted in imagery that explores personally significant aspects of Life. She uses four concepts to organize and investigate the "Ispirall" images: fertility, birth, death and rebirth. The final project includes photographic self-portraits of ninety-four projected images. She is pleased to share this project, which has previously be shown in Valetta, Malta and Paris, Ontario and, invites feedback from artists and viewers alike.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 June 15, 2007 - July 21, 2007
Never before seen work
Attila Richard Lukacs (Vancouver, BC)
Opening reception: June 15th at 7pm.
More Info: Lukacs' work often includes dramatic depictions of skinheads and labourers, contemplates the male nude, classical painting, and issues of social rebellion. His jarring and sometimes violent subject matter is infused with contemporary and art historical references. In the past his artwork has shocked and provoked a generation of painters and critics alike. Hamilton Artists Inc. and Hamilton Pride are proud to present a look at some never before seen work.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 June 8 - July 21, 2007
By Any Means Necessary.
Mark Byk (Hamilton, ON)
Opening reception: June 8, 2007 at 7pm (part of the James North Art Crawl)
More Info: MAKE LOVE F**K WORK
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 June 1, 2007 - June 8, 2007
Visiting Hakim Abdul Onitolo
from London, England
Reception: June 8, 2007 at 7pm (part of the James North Art Crawl)
+ Performance art work at 7-8pm
More Info: Born in Liverpool, England, Hakim Onitolo is currently completing his PhD research at the University of the West of England, Centre for Fine Print Research. This facility is the UK's premier academic print department renowned for print innovation and experimentation. Hakim is currently represented by the Manuela Hofer Print Gallery, London and recently presented a lecture regarding his work at the Subtle Technologies Conference in Toronto.
Hakim will be presenting a performance art work with local artist Irene Loughlin at the Hamilton Artists Inc. on June 8th during the James Street North Art Crawl from 7-8pm.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 April 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007
Environs
Colina Maxwell, Matt McInnes, John Smith and Mirela Zdjelaric
curated by Jim Riley
Opening reception: April 13 at 7pm (James North Art Crawl)
+ artists talk at 8pm
More Info: This is the culmination of three years of research into emerging, artistic voices within the Hamilton area. The exhibition examines how artists' environments influence their art practice. The exhibition explores the influences of rural and urban Hamilton neighbourhoods and the people that may be met within these environs. Media used by the artists include an interactive computer installation, large scale drawings, giclée and digital photography.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 April 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007
Anatomy of the Spirit
Gerten Basom
Opening reception: April 13 at 7pm (James North Art Crawl)
More Info: Colour and movement feature predominantly in these works, acting as a portal into inquiry. Combining collage and a collage-like approach to painting, generated an intuitive response to symbolic mark making. Each canvas acts as a visual form of a journal page communicating strong energy, emotion, tension and flow. A call to the feminine spirit to reveal archetypal wisdom resulted from trusting inner guidance. The study of repeated, rhythmic patterns combined with technical application, emerged inner landscapes onto canvas. The collective unconscious or morphic field illuminated the mapping of historically common and invented patterns. Out of chaotic movement came a new order.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 February 9, 2007 - March 17, 2007
The Hysteria Chronicles
Bev Pike (Winnipeg)
Opening reception: February 9 at 8pm
Artist talk: February 9 at 7:30pm
More Info: Bev Pike's twenty-foot-long gouache-on-paper works depict familiar fabrics in gargantuan proportions. Her work speaks of experience but she documents the liminal experience of being out of the fabric and of visera, traces of the body and its history in the fabric after the figure has abandoned it.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 February 9, 2007 - March 17, 2007
Elevation
E.H.ReisenBerger
Opening reception: February 9 at 8pm
More Info: Our experience of horizontal and vertical environments differs. How does it effect the equation of Identity and Place? In her recent work Erika ReisenBerger fuses emotion and knowledge, finding references in areas as far apart as music and maps.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 January 2, 2007 - January 20, 2007
Edgey
Fred Bilanzola Retrospective
More Info: Co-production with Art Gallery of Hamilton and Carnagie Gallery. In memory of Ferdinando Bilanzola (1956-2001).
In the 3RD SPACE:
 January 23 - February 6, 2007
Y.E.A.H! (Young Emerging Artists of Hamilton)
More Info:Y.E.A.H! stands for "Young Emerging Artists of Hamilton" and is the 2nd annual juried exhibition of BFA students of McMaster University, in order to foster relations between the university and Hamilton's strong downtown arts community. The exhibition is juried by art history students of McMaster, professors, and the Hamilton Artists Inc.
This year's student exhibition includes: Candace Osborne Bell, Catherine Farrell, Laura Marotta, Megan Smith, and Laura Zajacz
Reception: February 3, 2007 at 7pm
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 March 10 - April 22, 2006
Whole Cloth
Mona Kamal (Toronto, ON)
More Info: Mona Kamal attempts to preserve the memory of her childhood and ancestry in order to gain a personal understanding of her traditions in a Canadian contemporary reality. These memories deal with the migration of her family through the generations, and the fusion of cultures that result. The main component of the exhibition is a nine foot wide, thirty foot long vellum screen that has the intricate repeat pattern of an Islamic marble screen painted on it. The pattern has been derived from Pakistani postage stamps that the artist found on the streets of Toronto. Projected onto the vellum are images of the artist’s family, both alive and dead, and mementos such as passports and diaries that invite the viewer to make their own reconstruction of the history and migration of the artist’s family.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
April 29, 2006
Artopia
More Info: Annual Fundraiser Art Auction and Art Rock Party.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 June 9, 2006
Signal to Noise
More Info: An evening of experimental music and video with Michael Waterman (Guelph), Orphx (Hamilton), and Full Metal Booty (Peterborough).
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 May 5 - June 10, 2006
RoboChorus
Michael Waterman (Guleph, ON)
More Info: Michael Waterman's sound installation, RoboChorus, is a series of eight human-scaled robot-like figures that stand alertly throughout the gallery. Lurking in the penumbra of the darkened space, when a viewer enters the room they come liminally alive with glowing LEDs, their awakening spurred by the motion sensors they are equipped with, and begin emitting audio collages of many discrete sound sources each with an emergent continuous tone. Together, these eight 'voices' comprise the first eight notes of the harmonic series. Moving through the gallery, the viewer becomes immersed within a dense and shifting harmonic tone cluster that modulates in response to his or her movements.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 May 5 - June 10, 2006
Re-patterning
Tracy Bowen
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 June 23 - July 29, 2006
drift drag
Fae Logie (Vancouver, B.C.)
More Info: Vancouver-based artist Fae Logie has assembled an exhibit in the main space of Hamilton Artists Inc. that draws parallels between human consciousness and the vastness of the sea. Where often we discern distinctions and differences between things, Logie is pointing towards comparisons and analogies. As both a practicing artist and marine biologist, Logie possesses a dedication and personal link with bodies of water, and the life that exists within them. The exhibition "drift drag" consists of found and manufactured objects and a video component (which itself is also a found object). These objects constitute a mapping of lived places. For instance, Logie acquired the original whale bone for Sea Harrow while in a residency at Pouch Cove in Newfoundland. And the life-ring for Dead Weight was saved from the scrap pile at a shipbuilding museum. The gallery is an artifact collection of where and when the artist has seen, lived, heard, and been. A nautical timeframe of the Logie’s own life and interest in the world’s oceans. What is the sea? Logie explains: "Metaphorically the ocean is of the deep, of myth, that immense repository of things we cast off, of garbage and lost objects, rain and effluents, emotions and tears." Logie provides a nautical environmental space of reflection, to reflect about the sea, its lost objects, and ourselves. We are not so unlike the sea, you and I. Moving to and fro. To drift and drag.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 June 23 - July 29, 2006
Recent selections from The Liminal series
Aaron Murphy
More Info: I know that my body is in a state of decay, both physically and mentally. Weaker layers of memory and perception come and go; they rot to reveal what is underneath. The noise of a moment, within my imagination, or surrounding the clutter that is perception, is layered to infinity. I am an object, ephemeral and weathered, dirty and confusing. Drawn towards photography’s objectness and intimate voids, I want something with flesh; to discover a lose and personal narrative from my own material, and to create a liminal experience that honors the threshold of what I know and what is unfolding. With my work, I begin as a tourist, not to see a new place, but to take myself out of my own context and become rich with subconscious projections: to discover or perhaps rationalize themes. Never overt or banal, my documented photographic reality must blend with the reality of my impulses. Perhaps I am speaking of my soul, but I want more than conclusive forms.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
August (Date TBA), 2006
Photophobia
More Info: Annual Short Film and Video Festival in partnership with the Art Gallery of Hamilton and The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 Semptember 8 - October 14, 2006
Tune In, Turn On, Bleach Out
Marcia Huyer (Victoria B.C.)
More Info: Marcia Huyer creates large installations using Tyvek®, fluorescent lights and fans. Tyvek®, the material she uses, is a high-density polyethelene fabric used to increase air and water resistance in construction applications and to create what its manufacturer, Dupont, calls “limited use protective garments” worn either for ‘dirty jobs’ or in hazardous environments. Huyer’s cloud-memories of childhood embedded in the fabric and its installation allow us to elude danger albeit briefly and embrace the illusion positively. Her optimism enables an alternative view of fabricated space as a transcendent vista.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 September 8 - October 14, 2006
Demolished School Project
Douglas Drake (Hamilton, ON)
More Info: The Demolished School Project is a replica model of the now demolished 1910 Tweedsmuir School of Hamilton, Ontario. This model is formed out of actual bricks reclaimed from the wreaking site. Also, painted on the gallery wall is a layout of the school, including rooms and hallways. Visitors to the gallery are encouraged to write on top of this blueprint, about their opinions on historical preservation of Hamilton's abandoned historic buildings. The installation begins with an object, yet gestures towards an interactive wall-piece that encourages critical debate -- destruction as a beginning for dialogue. It is this play on originality, interactivity, historical conservation, debate, destruction, construction that is the focus of this conceptual installation.
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 October 27 - November 25, 2006
Annual Members' Show
More Info: Various Artists from the Hamilton Region.
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2005
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 June 24 - July 30, 2005
Don't Let Them Founder On Ya Bi
Kevin Friedrich
More Info: Kevin Friedrich explores the possibility of creating a prairie identity in art and the contemporary world. He does this in two ways. Friedrich combines painting styles that include pop, classical, kitch and magic realism. He then transofrms these art practices into specific regional ideologies using tractors and other farm machinery to represent class humbleness and simplicity.
In the 3RD SPACE:
January 14 - February 19, 2005
No exhibition information
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 May 6 - June 11, 2005
Chromaplay
Clint Wilson
More Info: Clint Wilson's dried Peridae specimans display chroma keyed fragments of national flags on their wings to disrupt the romantic notions of "butterfly". His butterflies transverse countries metaphorically to integrate into the socialized worlds of homo sapiens.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 May 6 - June 11, 2005
Victor Kammerer
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In the MAIN SPACE:
 March 18 - April 23, 2005
Fictional Landscapes
Natasha Henderson
More Info: Henderson's paintings of imagined places and situations provoke impressions of longing, displacement and vulnerability.
In the 3RD SPACE:
 March 18 - April 23, 2005
Josie Van Ryn
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2004
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 November 28 - December 18, 2004
Opening: Sunday, November 28, 3 - 5pm
2004 Annual Members Show
Featured Artists
Photos
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 October 15 - November 20, 2004
All At Once
Scott Carruthers
More Info: All at once is an installation of drawn images that simulate how information is transmitted and received
via mass and digital media. Exploring the notion of information as environment, the artist intends to cover the entire gallery with drawings.
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 September 9 - October 9, 2004
Suroundings
Eric Demers [Montreal, PQ]
More Info: Artist, Eric Demers paints industrial landscapes that are meant to attract and repulse. The artist strives to provoke a relationship between the viewer and his heavily textured canvases, which appear palpable and visceral in order to exacerbate the normal prohibitions on touch.
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 June 25 - July 31, 2004
Ape Shit
Brandon Vickerd [Victoria, BC]
More Info: Ape Shit is created in the tradition of Tingely, Brandon Vickerd creates kinetic sculpture that challenges the relationship between the viewer and the supposedly rational world of technology. By modelling scrap metal into a gorilla skeleton that subtly sways(with the assistance of a motor). It appears to contemplate its own hide made from steel wool, draped on the floor in front of it. The piece also challenges the viewer to consider representations of "nature" and their projections.
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  May 14 - June 19, 2004
Affectations
Contact 2004
Susan Dobson, Susan Bozic
More Info: The Contact show is held each year in conjunction with The Toronto Annual Photograhpy show. Regional artists
will be part of this annual event. Affections is an exhibition of photograhped spaces voic of human presence but filled with cultural artifacts.
Susan Dobson's work focuses on "shrine-like" domestic environments, while Susan Bozic constructs still lifes consisting of "taxidermed" animals, table settings and drapery.
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 February 20 - March 27, 2004
Further
Marianne Corless [Victoria, BC]
More Info: This installation explores themes surrounding Canadian history and identity. The fur trade
is referenced through the use of materials, while broader issues of colonization and First Nations displacement are also addressed.
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2003
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 October 17 - November 22, 2003
More Experiments In Futility
Michael Wickerson [London, ON]
More Info: More Experiments in Futility is an elaborate installation featuring dysfunctional tools and complex yet useless pulley suspension systems.
The artist often maintains and alters his work during the exhibition, adding a performative aspect to the process. The juxtaposition of function
and dysfunction is what fuels the artist's work.
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 September 5 - October 11, 2003
In Stereo
Rebecca Hackerman, Real Patry
More Info: In Stereo is a two-person exhibition investigating the use of stereo photography. Patry's floor installation Refuge
features a dozen sleeping cots screen printed with 3D images of nature and shelter. Hakermann's wall-mounted Stereoscopes depict dream images
which reference Alice in Wonderland. Both share an aesthetic sensibility and affinity for obsolescent and photo-reproductive technology.
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GALLERY ARCHIVE 
June
27 - August 2
May
16 - June 21
April
4 - May 10
February
21 - March 29
January
10 - February 15
October
11 - November 16 
September
6 - October 4 
June
21 - July 27 
March
29 - May 4 
February
15 - March 23 
January
4 - February 9 
October
19 - November 24
September
7 - October 1
[Two Stages: Fraser Stables] Employing dual screen
video projections and multiple audio tracks, the artist
juxtaposes an image suggestive of migrant workers
being driven around in the back of a pick-up truck
with a disjunctive and staged performance, involving
spectators looking into the space through a closed
window. Ultimately, Stables work concern itself with
the ways in which peripheral vision operates while
reflecting upon the growing disjunction between people
and their physical surroundings.
[Human
Faux Pas] The Human Faux Pas is an irreverent
performance art collective based in Vancouver touring
across Canada and the United States this summer.
They are coming to Hamilton to present Expect Disappointment,
an entire performance that takes place inside of
a 10 foot square inflatable cube, enabling the performance
to occur outside under any weather conditions. In
the spirit of previous off-site performances by the
Moncton/Calgary based Trunk© collective (1999)
and Montreal based Advice Bunny (2000), the intent
is to expose a new audience to performance art by
bringing the work out of the gallery and to the people
attending the Aquafest summer festival. You can also
check them out at www.humanfauxpas.com on-line. The
Human Faux Pas performance art tour is funded by an
Inter-Arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. 
[Celluloid:
Lift] A screening of independent films produced
by members of LIFT - the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers
of Toronto. The evening will feature a selected screening
of short films along with a short presentation by
LIFT Director Barb Sniderman about of the works in
the show and the recent 20th anniversary program.
This 3-hour screening will feature screenings of
both The State of Celluloid: The Present Screening
and Self and Celluloid: The Future Screening. The
two programs feature short films by John Greyson,
Judith Doyle, Mike Hoolboom, Helen Lee, Alexi Manis,
Wrik Mead, Bruce McDonald, Carolyn Wong and others.
The LIFT screening tour is funded by a grant from
the Canada Council for the Arts.
[Doomsday
: January 12 - February 10] An installation of two
larger-than-life sculptures deconstructing the notion
of the classical heroic archetype. Using the ubiquitous
figures of Superman and Wonder Woman, the artist constructs
a tableau depicting each of these popular super-hero
icons in a state of crisis, reflecting on the fears
and anxieties present in society at the turn of the
millennium.
[Midas
: February 16 - March 24] A series of cast aluminum
sculptures which use roadkill as a motif. The castings
represent the artists continued use of dissection as
a means of revealing the hidden essence or character
of a thing, and as a metaphor for forensic examination.
The works also comment directly on the low importance
placed on wildlife habitats in the wake of massive urban
sprawl. 
[Trace
: March 30 - May 5] Using teeth as a metaphor for
identity, the artist displays delicate lead casts of
individual bite patterns alongside collections of plaster
plates documenting physical and biographical information
culled from over 400 individuals. The investigation
of this very private yet public body area posits teeth
as a crisis point between personal and cultural constructions
of identity. 
[Arguments
: May 11 - June 16] A site-specific installation
incorporating architecture and the accumulation of knowledge
as a reference point. Featuring a monumental yet fragile
tower constructed entirely out of hundreds of books,
the work suggests both literal and metaphorical interpretations
based on the ordering of books by title, theme, content
and the inevitability or random association.